A short retrospect into the life and work of the Manaki brothers. The film represents passion of having the first camera as well as the very beginnings of photography and movie making in the Balkans. The production employed original costumes and photography equipment from the era.
In a small mountain village, every summer the grandchild comes to his grandparents, where his days are immersed in the scent of the summer. His grandfather is playing kaval. The boy meets the kaval and the magic of its sound. What's hidden in this long pipe? Is the music inside? So he looks through the kaval toward the sky and feels the freedom and the joy of life. Unknowingly, he carries this moment within even when he grows up and gets alienated in the everyday life routines. Slowly the tiredness from the city reminds him of the forgotten...
An older man in his sixties and a small child are walking on the Stone Bridge towards Macedonia Street. The man holds a small tree, which leafs are slowly growing. In opposite of his heavy steps and clear appearance, the kid is like a shadow, cheerfully running around. They arrive on a cemetery where the man plants the tree by an unknown grave...
People’s Front is a short animation film that mirrors the contemporary society through interrelated stories, symbols and allegories present in and around the building No 12.
The film circles around our lonely girl Ema and her friends. Not long after she gets caught up in the world of drugs, Ema finally figures out who she is and what she wants to do. Tough ride for her best friend Marko, running after her and trying to make sure she doesn't jump over the cliff.
Arban is a 12-13-year-old boy who falls in love with a young and attractive salesgirl called Aida who works opposite his father’s business where Arban often goes to help out. But Aida has no intention of attracting the young teenager, and Arban’s love leads to fierce jealousy of anyone close to Aida, as well as against his own father, Luan. Luan’s business is going well, but to increase the number of his customers Luan secretly goes out every night to throw nails on the streets. Arban discovers this by accident and suspects his father is going to see the beautiful Aida. One day his father falls into his own trap and has an accident. He spends six months in hospital, and after this Luan decides to follow the right path...
A short film about a 20 year old student who is coming for the Easter holiday. On one side, he feels pressure from his mother to meet a girl, and from the other side, he feels pressure from his secret boyfriend to come out. Caught between a rock and a hard place, he will wait for the right moment to tell everyone the truth.
A film dedicated to the white storks in the Balkan region; the film describes the laying of the eggs, hatching, growing up of the young storks till their leaving, in Autumn, towards the coasts of North Africa.
In 1917, the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt visits the French soldiers on the Macedonian front in the vicinity of Bitola. On the improvised stage she performed excerpts from Hamlet, character that she, as first female has marvelously interpreted twenty years earlier in the cosmopolitan Paris. The lines of Hamlet in the terror of war attain cruel authenticity and open the eternal question - is human capable of escaping from himself.
According to the Bible, the first man walked on Earth at 5 minutes to 12 o’clock. It was Adam, and he lived 930 years. The clock has been showing 5 to 12 for a long time. The question is raised: till when? Because, once the count down starts, the end is unavoidable.
Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.
A young professor working late on his thesis begins hearing eerie noises echoing through the empty university halls. Skeptical of the Faculty's ghostly legend, his disbelief is shattered when a shadowy encounter sends him fleeing in terror.
Celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising. The atmosphere surrounding this historical event is conveyed through documents and memories of the surviving participants.
The film is a reportage of President Tito's last stay in the SR Macedonia. Special emphasis is given to his words expressed at the gala dinner in his honor, as well as his visit to Lake "Treska" and participation in the session of the Central Committee of the SKM. On the streets of Skopje, President Tito is warmly greeted by a huge number of Skopje residents.
A story about Kanal 103 – cult and unique alternative radio station from Skopje, Macedonia.
The film deals with the frescoes in Macedonian churches, which are harbingers of the Renaissance. Special attention is given to the medieval churches: "St. Panteleimon" in Gorno Nerezi and "St. George" in the village of Kurbinovo. Two hundred years before the Renaissance began in Italy, the Renaissance began in Macedonia, with the frescoes of the famous masters Mihail and Evtihij. Comparing the fresco "Lamentation of Christ" by Giotto di Bondone, who is considered a harbinger of the Renaissance, and the same fresco by Mihail and Evtihij, one notices a great similarity in the psychological analysis of the characters.
A documentary dedicated to refugees from Bosnia, Kosovo and Syria, and in general to all people who suffered in the wars. The focus is on a woman from Bosnia named Nijaza, an Albanian from Kosovo named Bejtula, and a boy from Syria named Yousuf.
A film about the life and work of the Macedonian dissident Dragan Bogdanovski, one of the most famous Macedonian political emigrants after 1945. His contemporaries speak about Dragan Bogdanovski, as well as documents, daily press, and photographs. The film uses both live action sequences and authentic footage of Bogdanovski (audio and video).
A film-photographic collage of the city under King Marko’s Towers, its history, development and contemporary cultural and economic growth after liberation, all accompanied by the verses of Racin and Koneski.
A propaganda film that tries to reveal the reasons that lead to traffic accidents in the conditions of increasingly dense traffic.
